Partick Thistle unveiled their latest
mascot, Kingsley, this week, opening a new season of investment from
Kingsford Capital Management and hopefully successful football
results. David Shrigley is the Turner prize nominated artist who has
produced a creature who looks like a cross between Lisa Simpson, the
Teletubbies sun and the Good Morning Britain emblem plus something
else which I can't quite recall. The investment is worth £200,000 so
let's hope the lucky charm works more successfully than Jaggy MacBee
the previous puppet! Maybe punters can think of a new name for the club since it was once known as Partick Thistle Nil.
Comparatively, other mascots appear not
to have upset too many fans but have their own idiosyncrasies.
Hartlepool mascot, H'Angus the Monkey
became famous for representing one of the worst teams in the league
but also for standing for town mayor in the local elections!
There is the famed Football League
Mascots race held at race courses during the season raising money for
the Prostate Cancer Charity. My son, organising the event at
Doncaster, had to step into the Crystal Palace costume of the Eagle
when the actually mascot man failed to turn up. He had to run a
couple of hundred metres with a huge beaked head and clawed feet.
Needless to say he didn't win but the Bantam from Bradford City did,
because he carried no weight!
Other mascots have varied influence and
taste, some from American Football are downright scary.
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